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Prices quoted per standard bottle: gin $1; port or sherry $1.50; brandy $3; Scotch $4; rye $6; creme de cacoa $2; kiimmel $3; benedictine $5; Cointreau $5 -most of these in bottles identifiable at a glance as fakes, but a few magnificent imitations. "I'm telling you straight now, Friend, this what we call Spanish port is California, see? Your money back on anything you don't like...
...long as it inspires them to deep and shallow thinking. The cop get his man. How did he get him? Listen to the shameful story. He telephoned to the bootlegger, representing himself to be a Harvard student and ordered two quarts of whiskey and two quarts of gin, to be delivered at one of the college dormitories. The bootlegger delivered the goods in person to the cop in person and was arrested...
...League's zeal against Col. Foran apparently overreached itself. Its hirelings in search of liquor and gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
Some years ago a friend of mine, Joseph H. Swan III, attended the International Polo matches and at one of the clubs a bartender of some renown was asked to make up a new drink to celebrate the occasion. He used one-half grape juice, one-half gin, with a dash of creme de menthe. This mixture should be stirred slowly, and served cold. It is called a "Polo Club...
...respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering what I saw with my own eyes," boomed Chief Justice Kennedy, "I can only describe Robinson's play as a lampoon...